COSENZA - On Friday, the Premio de la Cultura Mediterranea celebrated the eleventh year of its inception with an awards ceremony filled with fanfare; it

ROME - The Food and Agriculture Organisation’s Fellow’s Programme operates in a manner counter to the employment laws of some member states, a well placed FAO source contends.

ROME– A press conference was held Tuesday in advance of the partial opening of the fourth and fifth levels of the Colosseum after more than 40 years of closure.

ROME - The annual monologue show of the English Theatre of Rome was delightfully more creative than the title suggests.

ROME – The National Gallery of Modern Art emerges into view from the gardens of Villa Borghese, a stunning building of classical grandeur.

ROME - The Palladium Theatre, once a historical cinema, still reverberates with the elegant charm of the silent era.

NAPLES- This week has not been a good one for Italian public education.

 ROME- We met by Trajan’s column, bathed in the golden light of the mellow September sun, for our afternoon wander through the ancient history of the Eternal City.

ROME- The timeless grace and elegance of one of the most beloved actresses of all time, Audrey Hepburn, are featured in the official poster of the 12th Rome Film Fest, produced by the Fondazione Ci

ROME -This weekend, Roman movie theatres “Giulio Cesare” and “Barberini” will be screening "Piazza Vittorio," a charming documentary that ran out of

VENICE- Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water wins the Golden Lion for best film, while Italian directors and actors fail to feature in the Venice Film Festival awards.

 NAPLES -- The Italian Insider print issue for September went on sale in 300 news stands in the city of Naples and its surrounds Saturday including newsagents in the islands of Capri and Ischia as

 ROME- As the 147th anniversary of the Porta Pia Breach of 1870 approaches, which marked the end of the papal state and its incorporation into the newly formed Italian nation, Rome prepares to cele

VENICE- On the occasion of the first-ever Venice Glass Week (Sept.

 ROME-  Stars including Sir Elton John Steven Tyler and David Foster are to take part in a series of charity events in Rome, including an evening at the Colosseum.

 TREVISO- The inaugural Tiramisù world cup is set to take place in the city of Treviso, near to Venice. Online registrations are already open and the final is planned for Nov. 4 and 5.

AMATRICE- No matter where you live you will find many Italian restaurant and groceries.

 VENICE- After being jointly presented at the 71th Venice International Film Festival and the São Paulo International Film Festival, Alberto De Venezia’s first film, ‘Io È Morto’, is to debut in It

 VATICAN CITY — Gazing up at Michelangelo’s magnificent altar in the Sistine Chapel with nothing to distract me save the soft sound of our guide’s footsteps pacing behind me, I couldn’t help but co

 POTENZA- The latest edition of “Corti in Cantina”, cinema under the stars, returns once again to the small town of Sant’Angelo Le Fratte in the region of Basilicata.

 FORLI -- “Tourist operators here in Romagna are now convinced they must promote the territory as a whole and not merely their own activity whether it be a hotel,  beach establishment or whatever”